Message #56296

[Psalm 51:17]

i was talking to a Brother here in Australia a few years ago who had moved from Tennessee he used to go to the building i used to go to before problems set in and we had to leave. I was talking to him about creation and i mentioned i liked Kent Hovind but he is in jail. He sort of hanged his head down and said that he was a "tax cheat". If one just hears rumors and what wikipedia says about Hovind then one would think that Hovind really did something wrong. i think the government there has gone into overkill their as said, Kent has served his time for whatever he supposedly did i would like to see him released soon.

No, it wasn't tax evasion Hovind got put in jail for - it was for "restructuring"(which he did with withdrawals). By law, if you deposit/withdraw more than $10,000, then you have to report it to the IRS(which is why businesses et al will "restructure" their deposits/withdrawals by dividing them up to where they'll do so in less than $10,000 increments when they have, let's say, $15K-$20K at hand). The reason why they put this law in place is to prevent racketeering and drug trafficking. Otherwise - the IRS sent out an apology recently to all of the business owners in America that were punished for restructuring their deposits/withdrawals(so Hovind SHOULD be off the hook, and he never broke any laws).

Pt being that this was also another propaganda hit piece that went around - how Hovind got convicted of "tax fraud"(which was NOT the case at all) - not trying to put down your friend or anything, but apparently he merely heard this same propaganda that's been floating around. I bought into this propaganda as well for a long time(until recently).